This book was just okay. I knew going into it that it would be a single mom FL but I didn’t know she would get pregnant like page one and be pregnant/have a newborn for the whole book, and I hate the pregnancy trope. And, quite frankly, she shouldn’t have had another kid, the fact that Eli was planned is ludicrous.

The book always points out on several occasions like Hadley isn’t like those “other” mom’s (implied to be bad people) who needs government assistance. First, nothing is wrong with needed government assistance. Second, I call bullshit. She works as a CNA and doesn’t receive child support. While she gets free childcare from her parents, I call bullshit that in real life she would make enough for rent, her car payment, and food. 

The characters were one dimension, especially the villain and father, Scott. He was 100% bad and it was almost boring to read because he just had to depth or really character traits other than being mean and lazy. Hadley, on the other hand, was just perfect. Her character growth came from learning to trust again which she kind of did easily. That and she’s, what, too nice? Give me a break. ML Elijah was the most multi-faceted and at least had some forgivable character flaws.